Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight — Somewhere around 1:00 am yesterday, my Airbnb.com horror story was picked up by Hacker News; to say this story has gone viral in the past two days would be the understatement of my life. I sit here now, taken aback and utterly astounded as I witness …

Airbnb burglary victim says company tried to quiet her — Blogger “EJ,” who wrote about her experience with Airbnb, updated her blog Thursday night saying that the company had asked her to remove the post, fearing bad press. — EJ wrote last month that renters she found through the site burgled and trashed her home.

Apple Now Has More Cash Than the U.S. Government — When Apple reported last week that it had $76 billion in cash, we speculated that it might be enough to buy Goldman Sachs or Facebook. Today, Steve Jobs' reserves match up with the world's largest sovereign entity. — That's right.

Foursquare & Groupon Hook Up for Real-Time Deals [EXCLUSIVE] — Foursquare users in the U.S. and Canada will start to see Groupon's daily deals in the Explore tab of the application and on Foursquare.com beginning Friday, Mashable has learned. — Groupon has become Foursquare's sixth and latest daily deals partner.

New Google Search experience for tablets — (Cross-posted on the Inside Search blog) — As part of our effort to evolve the Google design and experience, we've improved the www.google.com search experience on tablets. We've simplified the layout of search results pages and increased …

Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You — I love Apple. I love Apple so much that if someone gave me a bulletproof vest made out of MacBook Airs, I'd strap it to my back and take a bullet to my chest to protect my precious aluminum friends. — But Steve's lying to us when it comes to FaceTime.

Obama spams Republican Twitter handles to urge debt compromise — The President is urging the public to tweet legislators, one state at a time — With the debt ceiling looming and political tensions at an all time high, the President has been encouraging people to contact their representatives and express themselves.

Seattle Places Police Calls on Twitter — SEATTLE — A flurry of Twitter messages that began early Tuesday morning from the Seattle Police Department puzzled many Twitter users. Was there a sudden crime wave in Seattle? Was the city under attack? Had a computer gone haywire?

Samsung's Galaxy S II teaser page for the US goes live — Phone expected to ship next month — Samsung has given a strong indication that the company's popular new smartphone, the Galaxy S II, will be hitting US shores soon. Samsung has posted a new live webpage for the phone.

Buy a new Mac, get iLife for all your Macs — As with every Mac in recent memory, Apple's latest hardware releases, the MacBook Air (Mid 2011) and Mac mini (Mid 2011), include the current versions of Mac OS X and iLife—in this case, Lion (OS X 10.7) and iLife '11.

STUDY: Internet Explorer Users Are Dumber — A research firm posted an IQ test on its Web site and then compiled the results from more than 100,000 users. — It found that there was no substantial difference between users of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Opera. — But Internet Explorer users had IQs below average.

Cancer Survivors Build Social Network For Social Good — The social Web has a tendency to fold in on itself. Shortly after the launch of Google Plus, for example, users began to complain that it was only being used to talk about Google Plus. Drew Olanoff, currently the community manager …